Project Lens is an alpha-level demo. The data sets are incomplete and imbalanced and algorithm parameters are being tuned. Results should thus be considered directional. Want to provide feedback, request features, or collaborate?

Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty

@michaelbd

author of My Father Left Me Ireland. Senior Writer, National Review. Visiting Fellow for the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies division at AEI.

50671 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#10 0.006867 American Enterprise Institute
#10 0.006867 National Bureau of Economic Research
#77 0.001718 Niskanen Center
#168 0.000478 Hudson Institute
#253 0.000586 Mercatus Center
#278 0.000439 Brookings
#430 0.000291 Hoover Institution
#566 0.000212 Council on Foreign Relations
#722 0.000228 Atlantic Council
#927 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#986 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1016 0.000032 Cato Institute
#1185 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1219 0.000110 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1376 0.000033 Berggruen Institute
#1398 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1643 0.000036 Eurasia Group
#1890 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3339 0.000007 Adam Smith Institute
#3389 0.000040 Center for American Progress
#4309 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5760 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Journalism

#55 0.002151 The Dispatch
#77 0.001718 Foreign Policy
#91 0.000901 Ars Technica
#161 0.000852 The Intercept
#200 0.000486 Bloomberg Opinion
#216 0.000490 The Atlantic
#275 0.000351 The New York Post
#870 0.000117 Palladium Magazine
#876 0.000003 The Information
#1193 0.000002 Newsmax
#1203 0.000002 OANN
#1416 0.000003 Stat News
#1520 0.000107 Wall Street Journal
#1765 0.000020 CNBC
#1802 0.000003 The Verge
#2371 0.000003 The Economist
#2375 0.000048 VICE
#2426 0.000049 New Yorker
#2610 0.000025 Washington Post
#3140 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3170 0.000004 Reuters
#3639 0.000004 Techcrunch
#3824 0.000027 Recode
#4053 0.000003 Wired
#4258 0.000003 Financial Times
#4951 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5509 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times

Culture and Political Economy

#53 0.001651 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#112 0.001000 Moderate Conservatism
#146 0.000952 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#173 0.000897 Claremont Institute
#275 0.000593 Heterodox Academy
#293 0.000424 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#315 0.000481 Social Epistemology
#407 0.000178 Harper's Open Letter
#442 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#491 0.000003 Fair Vote
#521 0.000223 Rationality
#543 0.000289 Progress Studies
#570 0.000206 Persuasion Community
#622 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#640 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#656 0.000139 Populist Libertarians
#659 0.000221 Bismark Analysis
#678 0.000003 Existential Risks
#760 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#786 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#981 0.000133 Works in Progress
#1003 0.000003 350.org
#1191 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1960 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2274 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2694 0.000020 Effective Altruism
#2801 0.000010 Anarachists
#3006 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#4168 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4862 0.000002 EFF
#5789 0.000008 The Long Now Foundation
#7092 0.000002 Degrowth
#7094 0.000009 Ecomodernists

system

#121 0.000878 Think Tanks
#241 0.000242 Baseline
#377 0.000137 Reality-Based Community

Venture Capital

#478 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#558 0.000003 Founders Fund
#791 0.000191 Initialized Capital
#1010 0.000003 Accel
#1030 0.000143 Village Global
#1427 0.000003 Sequioa
#1953 0.000003 Y Combinator
#1987 0.000002 Bessemer
#2463 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2489 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2662 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3044 0.000038 A16Z
#3080 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3450 0.000002 Homebrew
#3551 0.000016 Khosla Ventures

Science

#1057 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1402 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#1529 0.000082 EconTwitter
#3222 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4714 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#6693 0.000008 Biotech
#9941 0.000003 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#3978 0.000031 Founders

Crypto

#489 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#641 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#685 0.000003 Polkadot
#1551 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2559 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2696 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2741 0.000002 Cosmos
#3079 0.000030 Crypto VC
#3100 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3366 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3983 0.000014 Crypto Infrastructure
#4353 0.000002 Ethereum
#4749 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5360 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#7448 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective

Software Engineering

#623 0.000003 Rust
#1359 0.000002 Zig

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